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A few high ranking Nazis were also believers in Hollow Earth theory. Though it's complete bunk, it is much more fun to think about than the "earth is flat" nons
by partiallypro 7y ago
A few high ranking Nazis were also believers in Hollow Earth theory. Though it's complete bunk, it is much more fun to think about than the "earth is flat" nonsense. At least this has made for good science fiction.
- happytoexplain 7y agoYou neglect flat-earth's contribution to comedy fantasy :)
- NikkiA 7y agoThe nazi's mostly believed in the concave hollow earth theory as proposed by Cyrus Teed/Koresh and known as the religion of Koreshanity, there is some evidence Hitler himself believed in it, sending an expedition to the island of Rugen with the goal of setting up telescopes to look over the interior of the earth to spy on British fleet movements around Scapa Flow.
- anon_cow1111 7y agoI feel like this is one can of worms I don't want to jump into very far... Concave means we're "on the inside" already? How did this theory deal with basic observable things like the stars moving at night?
- scarmig 7y agoYou could define some kind of coordinate transformation that would switch interior and exterior, with appropriate changes to physical laws. It would be impossible to empirically distinguish it from the Euclidean representation we're used to using. The weirdest part of that would be that it'd seem like light doesn't travel in straight lines, which is just crazy talk.
- Can_Not 7y agoLight is affected by gravity, and affected by the medium it travels through, in fact it's only straight in a vacuum.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> there is some evidence Hitler himself believed in it, sending an expedition to the island of Rugen with the goal of setting up telescopes to look over the interior of the earth to spy on British fleet movements around Scapa Flow. Is there evidence of this? The Wikipedia article on the Hollow Earth, in its section on concave Hollow Earth, recounts this story about Hitler as one that had been relayed without historical evidence.
- Jamwinner 7y agoThere is very little. It seems that the legend of the 'Nazi Mystic' is at best overblown, and at worst mostly an embellishment by modern cable-tv 'History' programs only loosely based on fact, often bookended by bigfoot, ufo, and paranormal bullshit.